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 As
a young child, Lewis' fascination with myths and legends was
fed by his nurse Lizzie's story-telling. Lewis began to make
up stories, centring on his childhood home of Little Lea in
East Belfast. Little Lea was a grand, imposing house. To Lewis
and his older brother Warnie, the house seemed more like a
city than a home. Lewis once said that he was
'...a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs
indoor silences and attics explored in solitude.'
Lewis and Warnie used to play for hours
in the attic - writing stories and drawing pictures. They
created a strange, imaginary kingdom called Animal Land, which
was populated by talking animals, and drew maps of an imaginary
country called Boxon - which is now seen as a simpler version
of Narnia.  The
influence for these stories was the 'unattainable green hills'
of Holywood, which they could see from their nursery window.
Lewis and Warnie cycled over the Holywood hills practically
every day as children - and these hills triggered the imagination
that created Narnia. Lewis also loved the Mourne Mountains
because that they made him feel that 'at any moment a giant
might raise his head over the next ridge.' |
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